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The search for Slippery Rock University’s first women’s flag football coach did not have to look too far, it turned out. Lisa Horton, who has spent the last three sea...
May 28, 2026 College
SLIPPERY ROCK — The NFL draft came and went. Joe Cooper hopes his NFL career is just beginning. The Slippery Rock University graduate and longtime SRU left tackle accepte...
April 27, 2026 Sports
STATE COLLEGE — For the last five months as construction cranes have swung steel beams and other fortifications into place at Beaver Stadium, Matt Campbell has undertaken...
April 24, 2026 College
Quarterback competitions traditionally have been the focal point of spring football when a team has lost its starter from the previous season. Look no further than the Bi...
April 22, 2026 College
A look at football players in the Big Ten this spring who are poised to have breakout seasons this fall: Illinois TE Kaden Feagin is changing positions after spending his...
April 22, 2026 College
Slippery Rock football fans can get their first look at the 2026 Rock this spring. SRU, coming off a 6-4 season and led by head coach Shawn Lutz, will hold its annual...
April 14, 2026 Sports
A study commissioned by the Southeastern Conference and the Big Ten concluded allowing conferences to pool their media rights — a key proposal among some looking to solve...
February 27, 2026
Before last season, JuJu Johnson quietly committed to Nebraska. The standout running back/safety at Farrell — about an hour northeast of Butler — didn’t shout it from the...
February 25, 2026 Sports
After having a six-season streak of reaching the NCAA Division II football playoffs snapped this past campaign, Slippery Rock University head coach Shawn Lutz has been on...
February 04, 2026 Sports
Joe Cooper was in a rush. A late addition to the East-West Shrine Bowl, the now-former Slippery Rock University left tackle only had so much time to shove what he needed ...
February 02, 2026 Sports
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State hired Arthur Smith as offensive coordinator Saturday, the second straight year coach Ryan Day has turned to a coordinator with extensive NFL e...
February 01, 2026 Professional
Pat Narduzzi will walk the Pitt Panthers’ sideline for a 12th season in 2026, aiming to better an eight-win effort this past campaign. The Panthers started 2-2 in 2025 be...
January 28, 2026 Sports
The Penn State Nittany Lions have undergone a good deal of change due to how their 2025 season panned out. Longtime head coach James Franklin was axed in the midst of a s...
January 28, 2026 Sports
About 200 Football Bowl Subdivision quarterbacks entered the transfer portal by last week's deadline. That doesn't mean it's a buyer's market. The top programs in the pow...
January 21, 2026
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Curt Cignetti came to Indiana to win championships. The old-school, blunt-spoken coach who began his Hoosiers tenure with a promise to bring swift s...
January 20, 2026 College
Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza spent the College Football Playoff showing the nation just why he earned the Heisman Trophy. Mendoza threw more touchdown passes (eight) than ...
January 20, 2026
Miami plays Indiana in the College Football Playoff championship game Monday night, with BetMGM Sportsbook listing Indiana as an 8.5-point favorite as the weekend arrived...
January 16, 2026
Mark Ingram, the first Alabama player to win the Heisman Trophy, and Ndamukong Suh and Aaron Donald, two of the most fearsome defensive linemen of their era, highlight th...
January 14, 2026 College
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza originally planned on going to Yale, which pulled out all the stops during his recruiting visit five years ago....
January 12, 2026
A few mile markers up the road, Curt Cignetti was in a similar spot as Slippery Rock University football head coach Shawn Lutz. Before emerging on a national scale this s...
January 08, 2026 Sports
No pressure, Mississippi, but the Southeastern Conference hasn't gone three years without a football national championship since the turn of the century. The sixth-seeded...
January 06, 2026
Rocco Becht has announced he will follow coach Matt Campbell from Iowa State to Penn State, giving the Nittany Lions a veteran quarterback to replace Ethan Grunkemeyer. B...
January 05, 2026
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — While fans trickled into the Orange Bowl stadium for a quarterfinal where tickets were going for as little as $39, the commissioner of the Big 12 sa...
January 01, 2026
Something to watch in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals will be how sharp the teams that got first-round byes are early in their games. No. 2 seed Ohio State wi...
December 29, 2025 College
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Chaston Ditta threw two second-half touchdown passes, and East Carolina overcame an inadvertent whistle that negated a long touchdown in a 23-17 victory ...
December 28, 2025 College
NEW YORK — Ethan Grunkemeyer threw for a career-high 262 yards and two TDs, including a 73-yard strike to Trebor Pena early in the fourth quarter, and Penn State beat Cle...
December 28, 2025 College
NEW YORK — Clemson and Penn State were projected in the preseason to be among the top four seeds in the 12-team College Football Playoff and in favorable position for a n...
December 26, 2025
It's not always easy to sell your fans on a trip to the same bowl two seasons in a row. The benefit for East Carolina is another shot at an Atlantic Coast Conference oppo...
December 26, 2025
EUGENE, Ore. — Perhaps it was James Madison going for it twice on fourth down on its first drive of the game. Or, maybe it was coach Bob Chesney calling for a wide recei...
December 21, 2025 College
STATE COLLEGE — Trebor Peña has advice for his younger teammates who must decide soon whether to stay at Penn State and play for new coach Matt Campbell or look for oppor...
December 18, 2025 College
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